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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • When Ukrainians kicked out the Russian puppet politician

    The guy they kicked out was actively trying to join the EU. The riots that kicked off a decade of bloody civil war did nothing to decouple Ukraine from Russia. All it achieved was to militarize the conflict.

    And then Putin retaliated by sending soldiers into Ukraine

    Just as they did in Chechnya and Tajikistani, to the thunderous applause of Americans in the grip of their War on Terror.

    Hell, we outright partnered with him under Clinton and Bush.


  • Even if we do manage to reduce our energy consumption, closing the nuclear plant would still be more harmful to the environment because we could have closed fossil fuel plants instead

    At some point you have to acknowledge nuclear power (particularly from planes dating back to the 60s/70s) as their own waste problem.

    And you can try to address this waste with more modern clean up techniques. Or you can decommission these old plants. But just waiting for derelict facilities to crumble, on the ground that “Nuclear Good / FF Bad” means another generation of Fukushima like events that drive people further from nuclear as a long term solution.